“Coup, coup, coup”, like a flight of pigeons, can now be heard across the land, echoing down the corridors of power, out through the media and down the main streets and byways into every nook and holler; from talking heads on CNN and MSNBC, to former Republican congressmen, conservative commentators, and general citizens.
The media had heretofore referred to last January's mischief as a 'riot', or an 'insurrection'. But I, along with professor Robert Reich, immediately saw it for what it was: a failed coup d'etat.(1)
The media finally began to drag into focus the gravity of the crimes when Rachel Maddow began reporting last month that the ReSCUMlickans had forged documents purporting to represent legitimate electors to the electoral college from the state of Wisconsin. Evidently a group of scum met in Madison, in the state capitol, and signed documents that were then forwarded to the Vice-president of the United States, the national Archives as well as to a federal judge in Wisconsin declaring themselves to be the lawfully appointed electors, all voting for tRUMP even though he had lost the state.
Over the last four weeks further evidence has emerged that similar crimes were afoot in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, all 'swing-states' and all states where the tRUMP legal team, if one can call it that, had filed lawsuits claiming, without a shred of evidence, massive voter fraud.
All of this has come on the heels of further revelations that one John Eastman, a purported attorney-at-large, working with Rudy Giuliani, circulated a memo in tRUMP's White House outlining a plot to stop the certification of the election and seize power. The plan was to use these bogus electors, by pressuring the Vice-president to either cite them and declare the electors in these states in contention and, therefore, return the question to the legislatures of the several states, or count these criminals as the lawful voice of the people and declare tRUMP the winner of the 2020 election. Fortunately, after wrestling with his demons, Pence proved able to keep his nose just far enough above water to save the republic from going under.
Caesar Disgustus, meanwhile, having sicced the mob upon the capitol, and realizing that all was lost, sat transfixed before the television reveling in the vandalism as the mob ransacked the temple of the republic. This, no doubt, as payback for the congress having impeached his ass.
What we have here is more than mere vandalism. What we have here is more than mere 'parading through the capitol without a permit'. (2) What we have here is more than mere 'insurrection', a mere armed 'uprising'. What we have here is sedition. What we have here is treason.
Several of the state's Attorneys General have referred the miscreants to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, mostly citing attempts to defraud the United States. They should be rung up on charges of sedition and/or treason. Why it has taken nearly 14 months for this to come to light and for the authorities to move on this is beyond comprehension. Why this information was not provided by Pence, who surely knew of the plot afoot, in time for the second impeachment trial of Caesar Disgustus is a question he must answer. Why these scum are not in jail remains a mystery.
Meanwhile, it has now been over 45 days since the House sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice regarding former tRUMP chief of staff Mark Meadow's refusal to comply with a lawful subpoena, and still no action.
The mid-term elections are coming and, if the scum gain the majority, the clock on the investigations will have run out. Once again, Donald J. tRUMP, the greased pig of Mar-a-Lago, will have slipped the knot, free to squeal that it was all a fraud.
An' Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh.
Indict, convict, imprison, execute.
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See posting of January 10, 2021: Rampage, Failed Coup, Our Political Tradition
The Department of Justice has prosecuted many of the mob on charges of unlawfully parading through the capitol resulting with little or no jail time.
